FAA proposal: Supersonic airliners can fly over US cities if they’re quiet
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美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）提出新规，拟推翻1973年起实施的民用超音速飞机在美国陆地上空飞行的长期禁令。新规要求超音速飞机必须将地面音爆超压控制在每平方英尺0.11磅以下，基于初创公司Boom Supersonic的XB-1验证机通过特定大气条件实现静音超音速飞行的技术演示。此举旨在为无干扰音爆的商业超音速客机重返美国领空铺平道路。
A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration. That could pave the way for the possible return of commercial supersonic airliners—as long as such aircraft can reduce the ground-level impacts of their sonic booms.
The FAA originally banned overland supersonic flights by civil aircraft in 1973, following US military tests involving supersonic flights over US cities such as Oklahoma City, Chicago, and St. Louis in the 1960s. But the Trump administration has championed the repeal of the ban to pave the way for supersonic airliners that could operate without disruptive sonic booms. So the FAA’s new rulemaking action on June 30, 2026, follows the direction of an executive order issued by President Trump on June 6, 2025.
The newly proposed rule would replace the 53-year prohibition with an interim “noise-based” certification standard requiring any sonic boom overpressure at the surface to be kept below 0.11 pounds per square foot. That proposed standard is based on the Colorado-based startup Boom Supersonic having demonstrated quiet Mach cutoff flights with its XB-1 aircraft—harnessing specific atmospheric conditions while flying just beyond supersonic speeds at higher altitudes so that the aircraft’s shockwaves are refracted upward into the atmosphere rather than traveling to the ground.
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